Paul Graham on detecting AI writing: verbose verbs and the Chinese "AI flavor"
Xianbao_QIAN · x · 2026-08-20
Paul Graham notes that AI writing often uses overly fancy verbs, like changing "secured 100 votes" to "attracted 100 votes." The post expands on this phenomenon in Chinese, identifying specific sentence structures ("not... but...", "behind this reflects..."), meaningless elevations (framing minor updates as "redefining paradigms"), and buzzwords (
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